Toddlers & Tiaras: Pageant mom bleaches daughter’s teeth

Teeth bleaching is meant for those of us who smoked too many cigarettes, drank too much coffee, and sipped too much red wine, right? Not the case on Toddlers & Tiaras, TLC’s hit reality show following young beauty pageant contestants and their overzealous parents

In the most recent episode, pageant mom Lori demonstrates how she bleaches the teeth of her children Braxton (age 5) and Alaska (age 8). The younger one willingly accepts the treatment but when mom goes after Alaska with the tooth brush she runs away.

“The teeth whitening stuff tastes terrible,” Alaska says.

“Your teeth are so yellow,” says Lori, chasing after her daughter.

It seems that Lori is trying to upstage the fictional Botox mom, showing just how psycho a mom can get over her child’s beauty. But sorry, you lose! Bleaching your kids’ teeth at home just isn’t quite as extreme as injecting Botox–though it still is ridiculous and unnecessary. Let the kids be kids!